Austrian man mummifies dead mother to keep receiving her social security
The 66-year-old man confessed to maintaining his mom’s physique within the basement of a property within the Innsbruck-Land area of western Austria after officers visited the home on Saturday, in keeping with a police assertion despatched to CNN on Friday.
The 89-year-old lady is assumed to have died in June 2020, police mentioned, however the man stored her physique in an effort to proceed receiving her pension and care allowance.
Police mentioned the person collected round €50,000 ($59,000) in the course of the time he stored his mom’s physique within the basement.
An post-mortem carried out on Wednesday didn’t reveal any indicators that the lady’s dying was suspicious, the assertion continued. The person is accused of profit fraud and hiding a lifeless physique.
The person mentioned he froze his mom’s physique utilizing ice packs to forestall any odor and wrapped her in bandages to absorb any bodily fluids, the AFP information company experiences.
“He lined his mom with cat litter and eventually the corpse was mummified,” Helmut Gufler, head of the police’s social safety fraud unit, mentioned in an interview with public broadcaster ORF, in keeping with AFP.
When the person’s brother got here to see their mom, he would inform him she was within the hospital. It was solely when a brand new postman requested to see the recipient of the advantages he was delivering that the story began to unravel, the company mentioned.
The postman reported that the person had refused to let him see the mom, in keeping with AFP, and authorities went to examine the property.